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Scleraxis Positively Regulates the Expression of Tenomodulin, a Differentiation Marker of Tenocytes ⁎ Chisa Shukunami , Aki Takimoto, Miwa Oro, Yuji Hiraki

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Scleraxis Positively Regulates the Expression of Tenomodulin, a Differentiation Marker of Tenocytes ⁎ Chisa Shukunami , Aki Takimoto, Miwa Oro, Yuji Hiraki View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Elsevier - Publisher Connector Developmental Biology 298 (2006) 234–247 www.elsevier.com/locate/ydbio Scleraxis positively regulates the expression of tenomodulin, a differentiation marker of tenocytes ⁎ Chisa Shukunami , Aki Takimoto, Miwa Oro, Yuji Hiraki Department of Cellular Differentiation, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan Received for publication 22 February 2006; revised 19 June 2006; accepted 22 June 2006 Available online 27 June 2006 Abstract Tenomodulin (TeM) is a type II transmembrane glycoprotein containing a C-terminal anti-angiogenic domain and is predominantly expressed in tendons and ligaments. Here we report that TeM expression is closely associated with the appearance of tenocytes during chick development and is positively regulated by Scleraxis (Scx). At stage 23, when Scx expression in the syndetome has extended to the tail region, TeM was detectable in the anterior eight somites. At stage 25, TeM and Scx were both detectable in the regions adjacent to the myotome. Double positive domains for these genes were flanked by a dorsal TeM single positive and a ventral Scx single positive domain. At stage 28, the expression profile of TeM in the axial tendons displayed more distinct morphological features at different levels of the vertebrae. At stage 32 and later, Scx and TeM showed similar expression profiles in developing tendons. Retroviral expression of Scx resulted in the significant upregulation of TeM in cultured tenocytes, but not in chondrocytes. In addition, the misexpression of RCAS-cScx by electroporation into the hindlimb could not induce the generation of additional tendons, but did result in the upregulation of TeM expression in the tendons at stage 33 and later. These findings suggest that TeM is a late marker of tendon formation and that Scx positively regulates TeM expression in a tendon cell lineage-dependent manner. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Tenomodulin; Scleraxis; Tendon; Ligament; Tenocytes; Chick Introduction them to each other (Kardon, 1998). In the developing tendons, tenocytes align in parallel arrays along the tendon axis and deposit The tendons are tough bands of dense fibrous connective tissue large amounts of extracellular matrices including collagens, that connect skeletal muscle to the skeletal elements. Their high elastin and small leucin-rich proteoglycans (Kannus, 2000). tensile strength principally depends on dense regular bundles of Collagen fibers, mainly consisting of type I collagen, show a type I collagen fibers that are produced by elongated fibroblasts highly organized parallel structure around the tenocytes. A recent known as tenocytes. Tenocytes are aligned longitudinally between 3-D serial section reconstruction study has revealed that the the collagen fibers along the tendon axis (Benjamin and Ralphs, architecture characterized by parallel alignment of collagen fibers 1997; Kannus, 2000) and have the potential to communicate with in tendons is achieved through the fibripositor formation of one another via specific cellular processes and gap junctions that tenocytes during embryonic development (Canty and Kadler, could form the basis of a load sensing system, thereby allowing 2005; Canty et al., 2004). the tenocytes to modulate their extracellular matrices (Canty and At present, few genes have been reported as general tendon Kadler, 2005; McNeilly et al., 1996). markers that can be used to delineate the sequence of tendon During the early stages of musculoskeletal development, development (Edom-Vovard and Duprez, 2004). Despite their tendon progenitors proliferate and migrate to form a tendon unique architecture, most structural components of tendons are primordium. This tendon primordium then segregates into also expressed in other connective tissues. Among these, te- individual anatomically distinct tendons, which interact with nascin (TN) has been employed as a tendon marker, although it developing muscle masses and skeletal elements and connect is also expressed in cartilage and nerve (Kardon, 1998; Ros et al., 1995; Tucker et al., 1994). Recently, Scx has been reported ⁎ Corresponding author. Fax: +81 75 751 4633. as a marker of the progenitor populations of tendons and E-mail address: [email protected] (C. Shukunami). tenocytes (Cserjesi et al., 1995; Schweitzer et al., 2001). Based 0012-1606/$ - see front matter © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.06.036 C. Shukunami et al. / Developmental Biology 298 (2006) 234–247 235 on the expression pattern of Scx, the syndetome containing the that Scx positively regulates the expression of TeM in a tendon tendon progenitor population was defined as the fourth lineage-dependent manner. compartment of the somites, in addition to myotome, sclerotome and dermomyotome (Brent et al., 2003). Ectopic application of FGF8 or FGF4 has been shown to induce the Materials and methods expansion of Scx expression in the sclerotomal cells near the Cloning of chick TeM myotome (Brent et al., 2003). The classical ERK MAP kinase pathway plays an important role in the regulation of Scx Chick EST cDNA clones (BM491558 and BM487464) showing homology expression by FGF signaling (Smith et al., 2005). The with human TeM were identified in the EST database of the National Center for restriction of Scx expression in the syndetome is regulated by Biotechnology Information (National Institutes of Health). A cDNA fragment of the Ets transcription factors Pea3 and Erm (Brent and Tabin, 551 bp was amplified from the cDNA prepared from the leg tendons of chick embryos at stage 43 by reverse transcription PCR. The following primers were 2004). In limb tendons, FGF4 also positively regulates Scx and designed to amplify the partial cDNA fragment, based on the nucleotide TN expression (Edom-Vovard et al., 2002). In contrast, Shh and sequences from the EST clones: forward (5′-CGAGCGCTCGTCCTCGCGCA- Pax-1 inhibit syndetome formation (Brentetal.,2003). CAGG-3′) and reverse (5′-GGAACTCCTTGTTCTGAATGG-3′). For the Compared with the upstream regulation of Scx expression, isolation of chick TeM cDNA clones, encompassing the entire coding region, λ little is known about the downstream events that are closely a gt11 cDNA library constructed from 10 day whole chicken embryos (Clontech) was employed. The inserts isolated from the phage clones were then associated with tenocyte differentiation. Moreover, to distin- subcloned into the EcoRI site of pBluescript SK (+) (Stratagene). Both cDNA guish tenocytes from tendon progenitors during tendon strands were sequenced using standard sequence primers for this vector and development, an additional tendon marker that can selectively gene-specific primers with a BigDye terminator v1.1 Cycle Sequencing Kit and identify a differentiated population of tendon fibroblasts is an ABI 310 Genetic Analyzer (Applied Biosystems). The obtained sequences required. were compiled and analyzed by Macvector (Accelrys Software Inc.). TeM is a type II transmembrane protein that is specifically In situ hybridization expressed in dense connective tissues including tendons, ligaments, the epimysium of skeletal muscle, the cornea and Chick embryos at different stages of development were obtained by incubation the sclera (Brandau et al., 2001; Oshima et al., 2003; Pisani et of fertilized white leghorn eggs at 38°C and staged according to the method al., 2004; Shukunami et al., 2001; Yamana et al., 2001). Mice described by Hamburger and Hamilton (Hamburger and Hamilton, 1992). In some lacking TeM display a severe decrease in tenocyte proliferation embryos, india ink was injected into the vitelline vein to visualize blood vessels. in newborn tendons and a disrupted adult collagen fibril The antisense and sense RNA probes for each gene under analysis were transcribed from expression plasmids with a digoxygenin (DIG) RNA labeling kit (Roche). structure (Docheva et al., 2005). The soluble form of TeM, For whole mount in situ hybridization, chick embryos were fixed in 4% containing the C-terminal ChM-I like domain, inhibits the paraformaldehyde (PFA), resolved in phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) overnight proliferation, migration and tube formation of vascular and gradually transferred into methanol by exchange of the PFA against increasing endothelial cells and also blocks the growth of malignant concentrations of methanol/PBS. After rehydration from the methanol, the melanoma by inhibiting angiogenesis (Oshima et al., 2004; embryos were hybridized with DIG-labeled antisense RNA probes, and/or DIG- labeled and fluorescein labeled antisense RNA probes. Following hybridization at Shukunami et al., 2005). Thus, TeM may prove to be a 65°C overnight, the DIG-labeled molecules were detected using NBT/BCIP promising phenotypic marker of the later events during tendon (Roche) as the substrate for the anti-DIG antibody-coupled alkaline phosphatase. development. After treatment with 4% PFA for 3 h and extensive washes with PBS, the alkaline In our present study, the temporal and spatial expression profile phosphatase-coupled anti-FITC-antibody was applied in the same way, and the of TeM during chick development was determined and compared staining reaction was performed with INT/BCIP (Roche). Some embryos were embedded in OCT compound (Sakura) following whole mount in situ with the expression domains of Scx and MyoD. Scx expression hybridization from which
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